The Three Faces of Fedora 11: Epilogue

During the course of the week, I had been asked the following question in various forms (the “forms” being a mangling of the desktop’s initials): “What about LXDE? Are you going to discuss the ‘fourth face’ of the Three Faces of Fedora 11?”

Well, the answer is: Not right away. Though very appealing and a desktop that has piqued my curiosity, LXDE was not part of the Fedora 11 constellation this time around (key words here: “this time around”) — neither was it an offering on the regular distro nor was it a “spin” (the spin list is here). However, I have the instructions on how to get going with LXDE, and I promise to take it for a test spin in the next couple of weeks.

Watch this space.

As for the “three faces” blog series, it’s always a joy to do blogs like this because a.) I get to play with software I normally wouldn’t fiddle with, and b.) I get to find out a lot of stuff that I didn’t know in the first place (look up “lifelong learning” in the dictionary and you’ll see my picture).

For those of you who are curious, and even if you aren’t, I think I’m going to break ranks with my GNOME roots and primarily use KDE on Fedora 11.

(Larry Cafiero runs Redwood Digital Research in Felton, California, and is an associate member of the Free Software Foundation.)

Hey, Mr. I’m-Too-Cool-To-Use-A-Desktop-Environment🙂 KDE’s what I’m using this time around because I particularly like it (as I mentioned in the blog item about KDE). How that’s selling out is a mystery, bucko!

Compared to something that doesn’t feel the need to make exceptions to the GPL, or distribute under a proprietary license. I’m just a bit concerned, it’s only a few steps away to a DD-wrt fiasco, whereupon neat features do only into the proprietary version…